Monday Open Thread; February 12 is Darwin Day (International observance)

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 02/12/2018 - 5:00am

February 12 is the 43rd day of the year, there are 322 days left

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Today's number is 12

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12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. making it a great base for a number system
12 is the sum of two primes, 5 & 7
A polygon with 12 sides is a dodecagon.
A polyhedron with 12 faces is a dodecahedron.
Cuboids (cubes & rectangular prisms) have 12 edges
Regular icosahedrons have 12 vertices.
12 is magnesium
A year has 12 months
The 24 hour day is generally broken up into 2 - 12 hour segments, am & pm
There are 12 inches in a foot.
There are twelve basic hues in the color wheel
In craps, 12, is a double 6. It is called Boxcars and is craps (loses or craps out) on a come out roll.
Humans have 12 pairs of ribs
There are 12 Federal Reserve Districts
There were 12 kniggits of the round table
There are 12 signs of the zodiac
There were 12 Angry Men
The 12 bar blues is a popular musical form
12th Night is a comedy by Shakespeare

Title 12 of the US Code isGOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES

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12 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Quirinius
Halley's Comet appeared.

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12 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Capito
Caligula was born

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On this day in:

1502 -- Isabella I issued an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile
1733 -- James Oglethorpe founded the English colony of Georgia
1818 -- The Chilean Declaration of Independence was formally approved
1825 -- The Creek lands in Georgia were stolen by the Treaty of Indian Springs
1825 -- The Treaty of Indian Springs
1832 -- Ecuador annexed the Galapagos Islands.
1909 -- The NAACP was founded
1924 -- Rhapsody in Blue was premiered
1935 -- USS Macon crashed into the Pacific Ocean
1946 -- Isaac Woodard, a black veteran, was severely beaten by a South Carolina cop
1963 -- They started building the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
1968 -- The Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacres.
1990 -- Carmen Lawrence became Premier of Western Australia.
1994 -- Edvard Munch's painting The Scream was stolen.
1999 -- The Senate acquitted Bill Clinton
2004 -- San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples

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Ah, for the good old days, in 12 BCE, when plebian Capito was co-capo, capisce?

But, on this side of the pond, "Abraham Lincoln, lawyer and politician?" You are having a bit of el style understatement fun with us! I know he had flaws as both a person and as a President, but, in my opinion, he was the greatest President and Commander-in-Chief in US history, keeping the country together (ultimately) despite unprecedented secession. Not to mention the Emancipation Proclamation and getting the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution through Congress and ratification. One of the wittiest Presidents, too, despite his melancholia and heavy burdens. If he had done nothing else, a President with a fine "sense of human (sic)" is a national treasure.

Unfortunately, Lincoln was, of course, also the first President to be assassinated. (Sic semper tyrannis, my ass, Booth. You're the one who's name is Mud and always will be!)

Lincoln minutiae: Two of Paul Revere's daughters married Lincoln fellas who would have been cousins of Abe's pappy, though they may not have known of each other.

@HenryAWallace
to Get Lincoln's birthday off, but it was merged with Washington's and converted into "Presidents' Day", 'cause they're all the same, doncha know.

We wuz at risk of having too many days off, and, as the Bible says, "Man must work to earn his daily bread". That axiom, of course, strongly implies that rentiers are non-human, but who am I to criticize my bettors.

Ah, for the good old days, in 12 BCE, when plebian Capito was co-capo, capisce?

But, on this side of the pond, "Abraham Lincoln, lawyer and politician?" You are having a bit of el style understatement fun with us! I know he had flaws as both a person and as a President, but, in my opinion, he was the greatest President and Commander-in-Chief in US history, keeping the country together (ultimately) despite unprecedented secession. Not to mention the Emancipation Proclamation and getting the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution through Congress and ratification. One of the wittiest Presidents, too, despite his melancholia and heavy burdens. If he had done nothing else, a President with a fine "sense of human (sic)" is a national treasure.

Unfortunately, Lincoln was, of course, also the first President to be assassinated. (Sic semper tyrannis, my ass, Booth. You're the one who's name is Mud and always will be!)

Lincoln minutiae: Two of Paul Revere's daughters married Lincoln fellas who would have been cousins of Abe's pappy, though they may not have known of each other.

Have a glorious day, all.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

We had almost 3 inches of rain over the weekend. I've been really pleased with the condition of my roads in spite of the rainfall. All my weeps and drains are leaf free and flowing.

It is warming here and spring seems to be around the corner (but of course there's more cold weather to come...or usually is). Daffodils will bloom soon. Tuning in to the seasonal changes is fun to me.

Thanks for the OT and music. Hope you all have a good day.....

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout
the daffs are breaking out in this part of CA, accompanied by ceanothus and poppies. Hope the rain is more blessing than burden.

Negligible effort will return multiple variations of an alternative definition for "dozens" such as: "an exchange of insults engaged in as a game or ritual among black Americans." Why bring that up? Why indeed?

There are dozens of reasons to like the number twelve!

We had almost 3 inches of rain over the weekend. I've been really pleased with the condition of my roads in spite of the rainfall. All my weeps and drains are leaf free and flowing.

It is warming here and spring seems to be around the corner (but of course there's more cold weather to come...or usually is). Daffodils will bloom soon. Tuning in to the seasonal changes is fun to me.

Thanks for the OT and music. Hope you all have a good day.....

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Isabella was an ass. Besides offing the Muslims, she also heaved out the Jews, and sent The Admiral over to ruin the Americas. The Hairball has mounted a portrait of her in his bedchamber, to which he masturbates frequently.

Rhapsody In Blue was written on a train, and was named after a Whistler painting. Grumps hated it, because they thought it brought communism to the music.

The Scream has been stolen twice. People can't keep their hands off it.

Since Kant maintained the human mind creates human experience, he has refused to concede he is dead.

Fifty senators voted to convict The Clenis. They wanted it locked up in a penis prison.

Twelfth Night is for sure one of the funnest Shakespeares. Stick-butts are always wanting to ban it, because of how in it all the boys and girls are confused. A couple years ago it was thrown out of schools in New Hampshire as "alternative lifestyle instruction."

Georgia Day commemorates James Oglethorpe dumping some white people in a swamp that later became known as Savannah. Oglethorpe in 1734 established thereabouts the "Oldest Continuously Operating English Constituted Lodge of Freemasons in the Western Hemisphere," which of course means he was an Illuminati lizard person, and Georgia a locus of the New World Order.